Kelly Kennedy is an attorney with significant communications, management and start-up expertise, drawn from more than a dozen years of public sector experience in Connecticut state government at the Department of Revenue Services (DRS), and six years of private sector experience in the health field.

Nonprofit Expertise & Practice Areas
Her consulting specialties include strategic planning and management issues, governance, grant writing and grant proposal design, editing and document design, event publicity and promotion, and web design.  She has worked in such subject areas as sustainable economic development, asset-based community development, Hartford’s Monday Night Jazz Series, addiction recovery and prevention, community health issues, food security and torture survivors.

Government Experience
An ardent advocate for writing government documents in plain language, Ms. Kennedy has extensive experience drafting legislation, regulations, rulings, and administrative publications on Connecticut tax law.

As a DRS attorney, Ms. Kennedy managed the agency’s regulation projects.  In 1998, she started up DRS’s Tax Products Group.  In 1995, she started up the agency’s Policy Management Program. She led a 1996 communications project when the agency revamped its strategic plan, served in a lead role on DRS’s 1997 business process reengineering project, and in 2000 helped develop DRS's RFP for a new IT system to process all of the state’s various tax returns.  In addition to tax, Ms. Kennedy has worked on such other public policy issues as e-commerce; gas marketing; corporation business tax credits based on economic development goals; Native American issues; and guidelines for auditing corporations.

Education
Ms. Kennedy graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1992. Before that, she worked in the health field, first for a Texas medical school, then starting up and managing corporate fitness programs for two large corporations. She graduated from Penn State, where she studied exercise science.

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Ms. Kennedy enjoys running, cross-country skiing, hiking and backpacking, and coaching girls’ soccer.  She summitted Washington’s Mount Rainier in 1995.  She also enjoys antiquing and gardening.  She is married to a fellow attorney and avid cyclist, and is mom to a spunky 10-year old daughter.